Creative Charity

Hope costs nothing. - Colette

A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Success is the child of audacity. - Benjamin Disraeli

Hope springs eternal in the human breast. - Alexander Pope

A poor joke must invent its own laughter. - Latin Proverb

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

When passion rules, she never rules wisely. - Ben Franklin

I hope my ship comes in before my dock rots. - Unknown

You want to invent new ideas, not new rules. - Dan Heath

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. - Edward Appleton

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. - Earl Wilson

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. - Abraham Lincoln

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. - Benjamin Disraeli

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. - Anatole France

In the factory we make cosmetics, but in my stores we sell hope. - Charles Revson

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions. - Henry Kissinger

The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. - Nancy Astor

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. - Niccolo Machiavelli

The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, and had a Good Friday. - Billy Crystal

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. - Johnny Cash

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. - Samuel Johnson

There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I don't know the key to success but I know the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Unknown

Enthusiasm creates a current in everyone it touches. It turns an ordinary person into a crusader. - F.D. Van Amburgh

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me. - John Wooden

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. - Joe Paterno

Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan. - James Roosevelt

Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none. - I Ching

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit. - Conrad Hilton

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. - George M. Adams

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. - Herbert Bayard Swope

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. - James Agate

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives. - Newell D. Hillis

Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. - Maya Angelou

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe

The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes.
I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em. - Will Rogers